Stony Brook University: Provost Office: College of Arts & Sciences: History Location Stony Brook, New York Open Date
Oct 11, 2024
Deadline Dec 15, 2024 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time Description
The Department of History at Stony Brook University (State University of New York) is delighted to invite applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of History in the area of early modern or modern Eastern Europe/Eurasia. The specific area of specialization is open, including Russia, Eastern Europe and areas of Central Asia, the Eastern Steppes, and the Caucasus. We particularly encourage scholars with interests in transregional, multiethnic, and/or borderlands histories. We also welcome interdisciplinary candidates whose historical work addresses social, cultural, economic, and/or political processes, and who engage with material and/or visual/aural cultures. We expect the scholar in question to have completed significant work in an Eastern European or Eurasian language and archives.
We seek a colleague who will contribute to the History graduate program thematic clusters. The successful applicant will have the ability to teach a survey of Russian history over at least a few centuries, and should be prepared to offer a range of undergraduate lecture and seminar courses, as well as graduate seminars, on various topics related to Eastern Europe and/or Eurasia. This faculty member will have opportunities for affiliation and collaboration with interdisciplinary Stony Brook programs, institutes, and centers aligned with their interests. These may include units in the College of Arts and Sciences such as the Institute for Globalization Studies, the Humanities Institute, the Center for Changing Systems of Power, and others. For more details about the History Department and our undergraduate and graduate curriculum, please see: https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/history/
Qualifications
Required qualifications:
PhD (or foreign equivalent) in History, or a related field from an accredited instutition. The selected candidate should have their degree in hand by July 1, 2025.
Preferred qualifications:
Research Specialization, Training and Accomplishment in the History of Early Modern or Modern Eastern Europe or Eurasia and in one of several subfields including (but not limited to) transregional histories, multiethnic histories, and imperial borderlands. Publication record in the History of Early Modern or Modern Eastern Europe/Eurasia. Experience teaching undergraduate courses in person. Ability to teach a relatively broad survey of the region over at least a few centuries, at the graduate as well as undergraduate levels.
Application Instructions
A completed initial application will include:
Letter of interest
CV, including teaching experience
Writing sample (chapter or journal article of 25-40 pages)
List of three references with e-mail contact information
Only references of shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Shortlisted candidates will be expected to provide a research statement and teaching statement with sample syllabus, and possibly other materials.
The Department expects to conduct remote interviews with shortlisted candidates and then host finalists on campus in early 2025.
Review of applications will begin on November 1, but additional applications will be accepted until December 15